Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 33330

Development Aid

Tabled: 24 February 2025
Answered: 4 March 2025

Question

Vikki Slade

Liberal DemocratMid Dorset and North Poole

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the Official Development Assistance budget is spent overseas.

Answer

Catherine West
The Home Secretary is committed to ensuring asylum costs fall and has already acted. This includes taking measures to reduce the asylum backlog and end the use of expensive hotel accommodation.As the Prime Minister said in the House, as we clear the asylu...

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